"The society ia reminded that the cost ot 

 publishing a singe volume Is at present 

 about $-1000. Our annual Income from all 

 sources is a trifle over $0000. Deducting 

 salaries and incidental expenses. Including 

 the annual dinner, about J5S00 a year Is 

 left for publication expenses. It Is mani- 

 festly Impossible to publish at the rate of 

 two or more vo'umes a year on an Income 

 that warrants only one and a quarter vol- 

 umes a year. As In many other enterprises 

 our usefulness is limited by our resources. 

 Members can help by transmuting their 

 .annual dues to the life membership hasls. 

 To do this adds $100 to the society's en- 

 dowmant and frees the member from all 

 further dues. 



Saddened by Founder's Death 



"The year has been saddened by th« 

 death of tho founder, who was also our 

 treasurer, and our never-failing source of 

 energy and enthusiasm— Henry Herbert 

 Edos. At their last meeting your council 

 adopted the following minute: 

 ,„i Th ,? P assi "S, of Hbnry Herbert Edjm, 

 hrn ? h h, oet 'V rred on , 13 th of October, 

 ber of the council. Founder of the society, 

 Its treasurer from the beginning, sole sur- 

 k BI . n - u oi ' th0 ori sinal council, sel- 

 dom absent from a meeting, he brought to 

 our' deliberations a deep knowledge of the 

 needs of such a society, an experience of 

 thirty years, and a profound and touching 

 interest in the fortunes of the soclotv 

 over which he watched as a parent bis 

 child. No detail was too trivial, no labor 

 however Irksome, was shirked, in rn en- 

 deavor to forward the welfare of the so- 

 ciety. To him, in collaboration with the 

 late John Wilson, is due the beautiful for- 

 mat of the society's publications. His 

 earnestness, .sincerity and boundless enthu- 

 siasm were infectious, and doubtless were 

 responsible for the success his appeals 

 rarely failed to meet with. Beneath his 

 dominant personality was a tenderness 

 perhaps unsuspected Jjy the stranger or 

 casual acquaintance, but well known to his 

 intimates, to whom ho never tired of show- 

 ing kindnesses. His cordial welcome at 

 our. meetings, his emphatic expressions of 

 opinion, his vigorous and outspoken com- 

 ments on men and things, his inexhaustible 

 fund of amusing and entertaining anec- 

 dotes of noted Bpston worthies, his reluc- 

 tant faro wall — these will dwell always In 

 " " r memories. 



